> The 21st-century is not looking for humans who serve as calculating machines, but instead it seeks problem-solvers and innovative thinkers. I distinctly reca

> The 21st-century is not looking for humans who serve as calculating machines, but instead it seeks problem-solvers and innovative thinkers. I distinctly recall how one of my grade school teachers justified learning maths: "In the future, you aren't going to be walking around with calculators in your pocket!" Yet today I routinely check even simple calculations with the calculator in my pocket. I've found that error-checking is the key to doing 'well' in maths, yet that's something humans are bad at and something machines are great at. Given this, I'd love to see a future where learning to do math strongly emphasized learning how to best leverage computers for error-checking. That's a skill I wish I had developed earlier...